When I was at the psychiatrist's to see about getting diagnosed I was asked how it was affecting my everyday life and somehow I ended up talking about the migration patterns of Romanian shepherds

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I can see how you got there. Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing but what I do know is that bees communicate by dancing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am so glad other people with ADHD can see the insight into trains of thought. Which makes me wonder why we don't have more vehicles run on Diesel generated Electric power.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Which makes me wonder why we don’t have more vehicles run on Diesel generated Electric power.

I've wondered that too (especially as the owner of a diesel car). My best guess is that hybrid drivetrains come at a price premium compared to plain gasoline engines and Diesels also come at a price premium compared to plain gasoline engines, so trying to put both on the same car would incur a double price premium and not enough people would want to pay it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

It's just a diesel range extender, they wouldn't have to use all that big of an engine. Just like on locomotives, the diesel is just is a generator to power electric motors. No integration into the drive line, the diesel has a generator on it that feeds the batteries.

One guy put a diesel engine in a Tesla as a range extender and it had a range of over 2,500 miles. It got like a 400mpg.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A second engine costs more, weighs more, needs more support, and makes everything harder to repair.

Basically, internal combustion to the wheels is cheaper for the car builders and good enough.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Diesel electric, not diesel hybrid.

Diesel generates power that charges the batteries. It would be more expensive than a normal ice car, but it would have thousands of miles of range and get 8-10x the range per gallon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Afaik the only difference at the general level is whether the IC engine connects directly to the wheels or not. A hybrid can run on either engine. A diesel electric uses an IC engine to create electricity for an electric engine. So you still need at least two engines, it's just wildly more efficient. And quite a bit more expensive to produce.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wait why would you need two engines? Or are you counting the diesel generator as one and the electric motor as one?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yup. A diesel generator is an engine. It's just hooked to an alternator instead of a transmission.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I wasn’t confused by the diesel generator, but typically electric motors are smaller and simple enough that they’re not considered an engine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Ah okay

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Were you also at the psychiatrists office OP was at? Seems to be a trend... unrelated, but i found out the other day that squirrels are becoming carnivorous.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I doubt that the care provider is the commonality. Centipedes don't have sex, the male drops a semen bag on the ground and the female finds it and uses it to reproduce.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Stop it you asshole, I'm willing to go down that rabbit hole. This is like pointing a loaded gun at my face and asking me to ignore it.

Edit: Did you know cats are the only mammal who don't taste sweetness! Must be related...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There must be something else at play. It could be that, unlike other cephalopods that swim, like you would expect, the nautilus propells itself through the ocean by expelling high pressure jets of water

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I have no idea what it could be. I see the possibility that the great pyramid has large voids that are filled with sand and debris caused by stone cutting is a valid hypothesis given the sand found when the French team bored into part of the pyramid in the 80s. Using sand and rubble to fill in voids would expedite the construction process so that the 20-30 year construction make sense. That also would be a progression of the attempt to stack blocks on a mound of sand and rubble to build a pyramid, which failed in the fifth dynastic attempts.